HWC 205 Study Guide - Final Guide: Printing, Crispus Attucks, Jefferson Bible

• School: University of Kansas
• Department: Humanities & Western Civ
• Course: HWC 205
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The basic assumption of a liberal education. People can be liberated form the tyranny of attitudes controlled entirely by custom and convention and can make independent choices concerning those questions of fundamental human concern (pwc, xiii) Our personal identity, according to pwc, is constituted partly by our enculturation: religious, political, aesthetic, ethical, educational, and technological. Is the basic assumption of a liberal education consistent with the above conception of what constitutes your personal identity? (pwc, xiii) Our hwc theme: reason suffers a fate similar to that of a classical tragic figure: self-recognition, and a dramatic reversal of fortune. Medieval scholasticism: aquinas, using reason, forgoes a link between reason and faith i. e. , aristotelian paganism and institutionalized christianity to form pre-lutheran catholicism. Italian renaissance and protestant revolution: scholasticism begins to self-destruct. Reason ascends: the ir takes a secular, practical turn, and the pr shatters the unity of christiandom. The scientific revolution: due to copernicus, galileo, descartes,